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>> richard engel is in studio with me now. richard, first of, its good to have you stateside. >> good to be here. >> december visit here. whats creating more terrorists? the bush interrogation program or obamas drone program? >> creating more terrorists? >> yeah. >> its very hard to know. people are radicalized -- >> theres worry that both do that. that both can radicalize people. >> theres a whole history of why people are being radicalized. it goes back to u.s. support for israel, whats consid...

Mostly in pakistan and yemen were insurgents and how many were innocent civilians. >> in u.s. public opinion, there is greater support for killing people than torturing them. >> reporter: why? >> its hard to know why. i think we believe that individuals we can see with this high technology precise discriminate weapons platform is better at identifying who they are. but in fact, most of the individuals who we kill, we have much less information about than the individuals -- the 119 captured. >> r...

Get the information to save other kids from dying? other people from dying? >> in principle the answer would be yes. i say that with god most gracious, most merciful. in principle. now, whether i would be weakened down to the point that ive b become receive iselfish is poss because thats human nature. what i think dianne feinstein was a great and honorable and wonderful thing she did. >> as a result revealing her classified information of this. >> we dont want to see a single life lost. but i gu...

Get the information to save other kids from dying? other people from dying? >> in principle the answer would be yes. i say that with god most gracious, most merciful. in principle. now, whether i would be weakened down to the point that ive b become receive iselfish is poss because thats human nature. what i think dianne feinstein was a great and honorable and wonderful thing she did. >> as a result revealing her classified information of this. >> we dont want to see a single life lost. but i gu...

The drone program that he has got some of the concerns as well, as well as trying to move it out of the cia and towards the defense department. >> do you get a sense from either the white house or the pentagon or the cia that they see some level of hypocrisy here? >> certainly you see a sense within the white house that they see some level of questioning about the effectiveness of some of the techniques. in the torture debate, the question is did torture yield the information you want? in the dr...

Obamas deadly drone program that vaporizes suspected$1z5@r(% terrorists or anyone else with hellfire missiles silently dispatched from above. christie, finally, a smear against the bush administration yet you have the president droning suspected terrorists with civilian casualties. >> right. again, i think burr potentially misunderstands his position here. the report didnt say much more that it wasnt a difference in concept of what we already knew. we already knew we were waterboarding people. w...

>> as a result revealing her classified information of this. >> we dont want to see a single life lost. but i guarantee you in the long run what she has done is going to preserve this country for posterity down the line. >> barack obamas involved in the drone strikes, in the drone program. and we know for example that 2,400 people so far have been killed. and we know of for a fact in pakistan alone the estimate is between 400 and 950 civilians including 168 to 200 children. now, she didnt mentio...

Unconstitutional and questionable, but there is a distinction in the sort of the international human rights law insofar as killing in war is somehow permissible where as torture never is. and the prohibition of torture is always, and killing combatants is subject to debate. >> and the subject of drones is what happens if it is not a war, and if it is used in pakistan and afghanistan, or in syria, is it okay, and then in the u.s., and other areas, then it is the rules governing the laws of the u....

And tdrone, and which is morall unconstitutional and questionable, but there is a distinction in the sort of the international human rights law insofar as killing in war is somehow permissible where as torture never is. and the prohibition of torture is always, and killing combatants is subject to debate. >> and the subject of drones is what happens if it is not a war, and if it is used in pakistan and afghanistan, or in syria, is it okay, and then in the u.s., and other areas, then it is the ru...

Have the capacity to go in and capture a terrorist who is actively plotting to attack u.s. interests or allied interests, then our options are, and the host country has no capacity to get him, then we either ignore the fact that were capable of eliminating him or we take the shot. theres no question that there are risks associated with taking a shot. there are sometimes civilian casualties. but i think again, the legal reasoning behind that is stronger than the reasoning behind torture. >> of co...